Rachel Uchitel denies affair with Tiger Woods

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

She did not have sexual relations with that golfer, Tiger Woods.RachelUchitel, the club promoter at the center of tabloid speculation aboutTiger Woods's car accident last week, made a clear and unequivocaldenial of the National Enquirer story that claimed she had an affairwith the married Woods."This is ridiculous. Not a word of itis true," Rachel Uchitel toldThe New York Post in an exclusiveinterivew. "I told the Enquirer and Star that it wasn't true. I toldthemnot only did I have information to disprove the story, but I offered totake a lie-detector test."Uchitel said that she has met Woodsonly twice as part of her job as a hostess for VIPs, sort of anightclub ambassador to the well-heeled and famous. "But Tiger and I are not friends," Uchitel told The Post. "That's a whole differentballgame. I've only met him twice. He came in to The Griffin [theMeatpacking District nightclub where she worked as a VIP hostess] inthe summer. As usual in my job, I got a call from a promoter that he'scoming in. I went outside and brought him and his entire group in,walked them upstairs, introduced him to his waitress. "I may have asked him if he needed anything. I hung out at the doorto make sure they were OK, and when they were ready to leave, I walkedthem downstairs to the car," Uchitel said. "That's my job. Then I heard rumors I wasmaking out with him at Griffin, that I had brought him in to Griffin."

"I had never spoken to him before that. I had met him once in my entirelife before that, for two seconds at a bar through a mutual friend whojust introduced me. Period," Uchitel said. "He was shy and quiet and sitting withsomeone else. It had nothing to do with me."Accordingto Uchitel, the story of the affair is a complete concoction pitched tothe tabloids by some acquaintanceswho may have overheard hersay Woods's name on the phone. Uchitel said she got a call from afriend who was organizing a bachelor party in Las Vegas and thatWoods was expected to be one of the guests.Uchitel made some calls on behalf of the friend to some Las Vegasnightspots, dropping Tiger's name. However, there was a problem andWoods's party had to leave the nightclub after 10 minutes because hewas being swarmed by autograph hunters.

"I was literally on the phone for four hours with [my contact], whowill also go on record, saying I was on the phone for hours trying towork out what the f- - - happened with their table reservation," Uchitel said. "Tiger'sname, of course, was brought up because it was about protecting acelebrity. But it was nothing to do with me knowing him, about mehaving sex with him, text messaging him, sexy text messages -- thewhole thing is ridiculous. I mean, he loves me? It's hurtful to hiswife."

In The Post interview, Uchitel confirmed that she had been inMelbourne, Australia, at the same time as Woods last month, but deniedshe had hooked up with Woods there.